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It is highly impossible for President Akufo-Addo to achieve his promise to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by the end of 2020, President of the Ghana Plastic Manufacturers’ Association (GPMA) asserts. Ebo Botwe indicated on TV3 NewDay Monday that there is lack of pragmatic measures and commitment to rid the national capital of filth. He noted, for instance, ...

The vice president of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has said government does not have any responsibility to find the teeming unemployed graduate nurses across the country jobs. His comments come after the Coalition for Public Trained Registered Nurses and Midwives described government’s plan to enroll them unto the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) as “very sad.” Signing unto the policy, they ...

The McDan Group of Companies has over the years supported Sports and Education in Ghana. McDan group has committed GHc 2million for the construction of astro turf football pitches for the La-Dadekotopon communities. Group Chairman of the Companies, Dr. Daniel Mckorley, an ardent sports fan was joined by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon. Isaac Asiamah, Member of Parliament ...

Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Head Pastor and Founder of Glorious Wave Church International has descended on former President Jerry John Rawlings for being one of the reasons why Ghana seems to be in an unending state of poverty. In an interview on Kofi TV, Prophet Kobi argued that the state of poverty in the country goes deep into a culture ...

Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has expressed their readiness to furnish the Special Prosecutor with “further and better particulars” to help investigate the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) for its alleged involvement in a $5.1m “shady deal”. COPEC had alleged that BOST sold 1.8 million barrels of crude oil to BB Energy, an oil marketing company, at a ...

Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has charged Ghanaians to celebrate the media for serving the nation loyally over the years. According to him the media in Ghana always go about their normal activities without hindrance from any quarters and their contributions he said, quickens the society in advancement, as such, the only way Ghanaians can appreciate their efforts is ...

Embattled professional nurses waiting for gainful employment are asking the government to heal the Heal Ghana Module under the Nations Builders Corps (NABCO) program. While they appreciate government’s effort at creating jobs for unemployed graduates, they say the Heal Ghana Module is at best discriminatory and at worst counterproductive to the qualified professional nurses. On Joy FM’s Ghana Connect programme, ...

The recent agitations against the Ghana-United States military cooperation have reached an alarming level, with reports of a plot to blow up oil facilities in the Western Region of Ghana. According to Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, some disgruntled politicians have been engaging the youth of the area in an attempt to cause disaffection for the operators of the oilfields, similar ...

A police officer has been seriously injured after students of Atebubu Senior High School in the Brong Ahafo region attacked a police post in the area. Several vehicles belonging to the Police Service were also vandalised by the students. The incident, which occurred Friday afternoon, started after some students of Atebubu SHS allegedly bribed some of their teachers to help ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 4 May 2018, reinstated, with immediate effect, the suspended Upper West Regional Minister, Alhassan Suleman, following the completion of police investigations into the attack on the Upper West Regional offices of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in Wa, which led to the suspension. President Akufo-Addo’s decision, according to a statement from the ...